USN-4428-1: Python vulnerabilities

23969

11 December 2020

11 December 2020

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2019-17514,CVE-2019-20907,CVE-2019-9674,CVE-2020-14422

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that Python documentation had a misleading information. A security issue could be possibly caused by wrong assumptions of this information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17514)

It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain TAR archives. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2019-20907)

It was discovered that incorrectly handled certain ZIP files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 ESM, Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-9674)

It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain IP values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14422)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2019-20907, CVE-2019-9674, CVE-2019-17514, CVE-2020-14422

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

Vulnerable Cloud Foundry components individually listed here. Impacted stemcells may be updated independently of upgrading Tanzu Application Service or Isolation Segment.
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.22
    • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.16
    • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.10
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.2
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.6 versions prior to 2.6.27
    • 2.7 versions prior to 2.7.22
    • 2.8 versions prior to 2.8.12
    • 2.9 versions prior to 2.9.8
    • 2.10 versions prior to 2.10.1
  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.1.x versions prior to 4.1.21
    • 4.2.x versions prior to 4.2.16
    • 4.3.x versions prior to 4.3.13
    • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.5
  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • All versions prior to 2.0.0
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.21
    • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.16
    • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.10
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.2

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. The Cloud Foundry security team recommends upgrading the affected OSS components listed here if applicable. Upgrade VMware Tanzu products that use earlier versions of CF components to new Tanzu releases using new versions linked above. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.7.22
    • 2.8.16
    • 2.9.10
    • 2.10.2
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.6.27
    • 2.7.22
    • 2.8.12
    • 2.9.8
    • 2.10.1
  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.1.21
    • 4.2.16
    • 4.3.13
    • 4.4.5
  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • 2.0.0
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.7.21
    • 2.8.16
    • 2.9.10
    • 2.10.2

References

History

2020-12-11: Initial vulnerability report published.